Jacob Lawrence

Exhibited: The Downtown Gallery, New York, Jacob Lawrence, Oct-Nov 1950 Texas Christian University, April, 1952. The Katonah Museum of Art, New York, Jacob Lawrence: The Early Decades, 1935-1950, March-April, 1992 The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC The Whitney Museum, Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence, May 2001-February 2002

Literature: Ebony, April 1951; “Jacob Lawrence: New Paintings Portraying Life in Insane Asylum Project Him into Top Ranks of U.S. Artists”, illustrated (a copy of this magazine accompanies the lot). The Modern Renaissance in American Art: Presenting the Work and Philosophy of Fifty-Four Distinguished Artists (1954) Jacob Lawrence: Paintings,Drawings, and Murals (1935-1999), A Catalogue Raisonne, (illustrated in color); (a copy of this book accompanies the lot)